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.TH LFCOMPILE64 7 "Jan 26, 1998"
.SH NAME
lfcompile64 \- transitional compilation environment
.SH DESCRIPTION
.sp
.LP
All 64-bit applications can manipulate large files by default. The transitional
interfaces described on this page can be used by 32-bit and 64-bit applications
to manipulate large files.
.sp
.LP
In the transitional compilation environment, explicit 64-bit functions,
structures, and types are added to the  \fBAPI.\fR Compiling in this
environment allows both 32-bit and 64-bit applications to access files whose
size is greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
.sp
.LP
The transitional compilation environment exports all the explicit 64-bit
functions (\fIxxx\fR\fB64()\fR) and types in addition to all the regular
functions (\fIxxx\fR\fB()\fR) and types. Both \fIxxx\fR\fB()\fR and
\fIxxx\fR\fB64()\fR functions are available to the program source.  A 32-bit
application must use the \fIxxx\fR\fB64()\fR functions in order to access large
files. See the \fBlf64\fR(7) manual page for a complete listing of the 64-bit
transitional interfaces.
.sp
.LP
The transitional compilation environment differs from the large file
compilation environment, wherein the underlying interfaces are bound to 64-bit
functions, structures, and types. An application compiled in the large file
compilation environment is able to use the \fIxxx\fR\fB()\fR source interfaces
to access both large and small files, rather than having to explicitly utilize
the transitional \fIxxx\fR\fB64()\fR interface calls to access large files. See
the \fBlfcompile\fR(7) manual page for more information regarding the large
file compilation environment.
.sp
.LP
Applications may combine objects produced in the large file compilation
environment with objects produced in the transitional compilation environment,
but must be careful with respect to interoperability between those objects.
Applications should not declare global variables of types whose sizes change
between  compilation environments.
.sp
.LP
For applications that do not wish to conform to the POSIX or X/Open
specifications, the 64-bit transitional interfaces are available by default.
No compile-time flags need to be set.
.SS "Access to Additional Large File Interfaces"
.sp
.LP
Applications that wish to access the transitional interfaces as well as the
POSIX or X/Open specification-conforming interfaces should use the following
compilation methods and set whichever feature test macros are appropriate to
obtain the desired environment (see \fBstandards\fR(7)).
.RS +4
.TP
.ie t \(bu
.el o
Set the compile-time flag \fB_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE\fR to 1 before including any
headers.
.RE
.RS +4
.TP
.ie t \(bu
.el o
Use the \fBgetconf\fR(1) command with one or more of the following arguments:
.RE
.sp

.sp
.TS
box;
c | c
l | l .
\fBargument\fR	\fBpurpose\fR
_
\fBLFS64_CFLAGS\fR	T{
obtain compilation flags necessary to enable the transitional compilation environment
T}
\fBLFS64_LDFLAGS\fR	obtain link editor options
\fBLFS64_LIBS\fR	obtain link library names
\fBLFS64_LINTFLAGS\fR	obtain lint options
.TE

.SH EXAMPLES
.sp
.LP
In the following examples, the transitional compilation environment is accessed
by invoking the \fBgetconf\fR utility with one of the arguments listed in the
table above. The additional large file interfaces are accessed either by
specifying \fB-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE\fR or by invoking the \fBgetconf\fR utility
with the arguments listed above.
.sp
.LP
The example that uses the form of command substitution specifying the command
within parentheses preceded by a dollar sign can be executed only in a
POSIX-conforming shell such as the Korn Shell (see \fBksh\fR(1)). In a shell
that is not POSIX-conforming, such as the Bourne Shell (see \fBsh\fR(1)) and
the C Shell (see \fBcsh\fR(1)), the command must be enclosed within grave
accent marks.
.LP
\fBExample 1 \fRAn example of compiling a program using transitional
interfaces such as \fBlseek64()\fR and \fBfopen64()\fR:
.sp
.in +2
.nf
$ c89 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE        \e
      $(getconf LFS64_CFLAGS) a.c  \e
      $(getconf LFS64_LDFLAGS)     \e
      $(getconf LFS64_LIBS)
.fi
.in -2

.LP
\fBExample 2 \fRAn example of running lint on a program using transitional
interfaces:
.sp
.in +2
.nf
% lint -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE        \e
      \(gagetconf LFS64_LINTFLAGS\(ga \&.\|.\|. \e
      \(gagetconf LFS64_LIBS\(ga
.fi
.in -2

.SH SEE ALSO
.sp
.LP
.BR getconf (1),
.BR lseek (2),
.BR fopen (3C),
.BR lf64 (7),
.BR standards (7)
